For some who are late coming to this story it seems like all this is relatively new revelations which sprung up after the outing of Jimmy Saville as a serial abuser, yet it’s not. As I and many others, have discovered is that this is all regarding stories which have been around for a long, long time and been placed in the public domain which gets me to the point of this blog which is to reblog this Scallywag article from 1994.

There are some interesting names brought up in the article such as Derek Laud, the former Celebrity Big Brother constant who has actively been trying to have material removed from the net as much as he could. There are other names in this article that in the light of recent stories take on a different light, and of course, nothing is as yet proven but I find it fascinating that in 1994 the story of Dolphin Square was out there.

So here’s the full article from Scallywag reprinted.

SCALLYWAG ARTICLE circa 1994

Dolphin Square is not particularly exclusive – in the same way as, say, the Albany is. In fact much of it is rather tatty and gaunt. It is formidably large, somewhere between a village and a city with its own shops, sporting facilities, bars and restaurants. Any exclusivity it does enjoy is merely because you have to be “someone” to get in and that “someone” has to be au fais with the resident’s Committee, which is dominated and was clearly motivated by the right wing element of its landlord’s – Westminster City Council. There are some fifty MP’s in the set of buildings (about one in seven of all members). They include some token non-Tories, like left-winger Tom Pendry, and former Liberal leader Sir David Steel.

But most of the inmates are well behaved Conservative back benchers who need a cheap London pad.
Its other great advantage is its anonymity. As long as you don’t upset other residents, people tend to let you get on with your life. There is also a very well run security system and service arrangements which guarantees this privacy. If you do dine there, as Portillo, Lilly and co. do quite often, you tend to find yourself in the “right company”. The staff are the height of discretion.

It creates the perfect setting for private parties and tete a’ tetes and “model” agencies providing both young men and women are a thriving industry in Pimlico. In fact, the local rent-a-boy agencies provide an almost service industry to the complex.

Our “spy” in the building is a close observer of life behind the grey-white walls and tells us gay parties and “romps” go on most nights and he has got quite used to young gays wandering around looking for the next rave.

The political importance of Dolphin Square to the Tories on Westminster council is significant. The complex created the perfect role model to ensure a Tory balance in the wards. Dame Porter’s stated goal was to move out unemployed, homeless, and obvious labour supporters from the marginals, and move in known Tories in what they called the Dolphin Factor – a large enclave of Tory votes carefully nurtured and looked after right in the centre of the ward.

Julian Lewis operates as “JRJ Lewis” in one of the more opulent pads at 110 Nelson house.

The Westminster Connection

It is no mere coincidence that the main stages of this sordid drama fortuitously embrace not just the Houses of Parliament and Smith Square, but Dolphin Square and Westminster City Council who administer it and make very sure that there is a wide selection of their own friends and sympathisers in the building. If you are hunting for dirty tricks and gerrymandering it can all be found in less than a square mile of sordid intrigue and nasty conspiracies in the very heart of London.

Dolphin Square – the largest block of flats in Europe, and itself a hot-bed of political machinations – is in the safe Tory enclave of Pimlico, nick-named by politico wags asPimp-lico for it is here that therent-a-boy lobby have their headquarters.

While the City Council’s invidious supporter Julian Lewis operates his business from “JRJ Lewis” at 110 Nelson House in Dolphin Square – a stone’s throw from his CCO office – none other than our old friend Derek Laud operates his from a private house just round the corner in Winchester Street.

It was Laud, known as “Golly” who went on holiday with his boyfriend with the Portillos and Lillies. He is a fore runner and front man for Ludgate Communications, which overtly runs a gay lobby group providing evening soirees for like minded politicos. These are almost exclusively both gay and right wing Tories.

In another block at Dolphin Square is another old friend, Robert Atkins ( 4 Collingswood House), who played the most central role in the right-wing dirty tricks operation against Owen Oyston.

It is now accepted, at least by every fair-minded person of any hue that the council house for voters scandal, complete with slush funds, behind door conspiracies, acute nepotism from the top, and the active participation of the CCO, was one of the worst of its kind on modern politics.

We have now read the full transcripts of the Margill report, in which the District Auditor, John Margill of Touche Ross, carefully. witness by witness, delved for the truth of the matter. It was clear to him, and deeply reflected in is report, that Lady Porter and her cronies and lackeys, led by two mysterious advisors on her personal payroll, had identified ten marginal wards and actively set about turning them blue.

At a cost of £100,000 they bought up the services of five Tory activists to find out the political colour of every person in these wards. Houses which came empty were let in these wards only to known Tory sympathisers. Unemployed and homeless were shuffled off to the safe Labour seats.

So desperate were they to place labourites in the right ward that they allowed the homeless to inhabit two enormous tower blocks which had been condemned by their own health department for having toxic levels of asbestos poisoning. A full report confirming this is due in the autumn.

The significant thing about this is how many of the names turn up in this scandal who also are apparent in the Gay lobby scandal and the Dirty Tricks department run by Julian Lewis.

I only hope that the truth in all this mess is within reach and if there are high ranking politicians involved, then if they’re still alive, they deserve a trial and if found guilty, a long, long time in prison.